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MSNBC is running the Rachel Maddow hosted McVeigh Tapes now 7pm EST (Original Post) flamingdem Apr 2013 OP
Watching malaise Apr 2013 #1
This documentary is fascinating flamingdem Apr 2013 #3
It really is good malaise Apr 2013 #6
When we see his real face in contrast to the digital face it's a shock flamingdem Apr 2013 #5
Thanks dmr Apr 2013 #2
Review from the New York Times flamingdem Apr 2013 #4

flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
3. This documentary is fascinating
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 07:06 PM
Apr 2013

and it spawned a score of attacks and entire patriot teaparty type films in response.

flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
5. When we see his real face in contrast to the digital face it's a shock
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 07:14 PM
Apr 2013

His expression still reaches across time, imo.

flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
4. Review from the New York Times
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/arts/television/19mcveigh.html?_r=0

“The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist,” which will be shown on Monday, the 15th anniversary of the bombing, comes at a time when right-wing militia groups are on the rise, or at least more audible, and heightened anti-government talk is heating up anti-anti-government fervor. McVeigh’s descent into violence is presented as much as a cautionary tale as a commemoration.

“Nine years after his execution we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh’s voice from the grave echoes in a new rising tide of American anti-government extremism,” is how the MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, who narrates the film, puts it in her introduction.

But strangely, this film, which claims to be the first ever to present McVeigh in his own words, blunts its impact by relying on stagy computer graphics, and even an actor whose looks are digitally altered, to re-enact McVeigh’s movements. Scenes of this domestic terrorist in shackles during a prison interview or lighting a fuse inside a rented Ryder truck look neither real nor completely fake, but certainly cheesy: a violent video game with McVeigh as a methodical, murderous avatar.

Documentaries increasingly use technology, often to good effect. The History channel, which used to rely heavily on quaint, period-costume re-enactments (a shot of a quill pen writing on parchment, a tableau of soldiers firing muskets at close range), is expanding its virtual reach. “America: The Story of Us,” a six-part series about the United States that begins on Sunday, is visually thrilling but in a sensible, instructive way: computer wizardry, for example, peels a map of Manhattan today back to what the terrain looked like more than 200 years ago when the towers and strip mall of Kips Bay were meadows stormed by the British in 1776.
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